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...election of Kim Dae-jung, 73, is being hailed as South Koreans' lunge for mature democracy. The margin of his victory, a single percentage point, is a sign of how tightly the ruling party could still hold on even after the outgoing government had shown itself to be rife with corruption and had presided over South Korea's fast trip from the world's eleventh-largest economy to being on the IMF dole...
...supposed ruthless management of Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program and terrorist activities, including the 1983 attack in Burma that killed a large part of the visiting South Korean Cabinet and a 1987 bombing of a South Korean airliner. And if someone gets in the way of his succession? Says Dae-Sook Suh, an expert on the Pyongyang regime at the University of Hawaii: "Kim Jong Il will have him killed right away...
...South Korean side of the line in the truce village of Panmunjom, Seoul's diplomats were shocked by the steamy rhetoric from their Northern counterparts. "Seoul is not far from here," warned the North's Park Yong Su, reading a prepared text to the South's Song Yong Dae. "Should a war break out, Seoul will be a sea of flames, and you, Mr. Song, will find it difficult to survive...
...woes. With outgoing President Roh Tae Woo and former military dictator Chun Doo Hwan standing behind him, Kim told a shivering crowd of 30,000 that "misconduct and corruption are the most terrifying enemies attacking the foundations of our society." The Democratic Party of his onetime ally Kim Dae Jung boycotted the ceremonies because the victor refused to apologize for personal attacks in last year's campaign...
...perennial opponent of South Korean dictators, merged his opposition party with that of outgoing President Roh Tae Woo. The move surprised many but proved to be politically savvy. Running as the candidate of the predominant Democratic Liberal Party, Kim beat his longtime rival, the fiery populist Kim Dae Jung, 67, by 42% to 34%. He was helped by the poor showing of Chung Ju Yung, 77, the former chairman of the Hyundai conglomerate and his main competitor among conservative and middle-class voters, who received only 16% of the vote. Kim, campaigning for "change with stability," * was the safe choice...